tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44737738131284959162016-05-20T15:21:47.363+07:00ARI SATRIYO WIBOWO, A CHIEF BLOGGING OFFICER IN INDONESIAARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-48860836050421380462008-06-24T12:59:00.003+07:002008-12-09T23:29:10.090+07:00The power and the glory<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >The next technology boom may well be based on alternative energy. But which sort to back?</span><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">EVERYONE loves a booming market, and most booms happen on the back of technological change. The world’s venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one. They think they have found it: energy. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Many past booms have been energy-fed: coal-fired steam power, oil-fired internal-combustion engines, the rise of electricity, even the mass tourism of the jet era. But the past few decades have been quiet on that front. Coal has been cheap. Natural gas has been cheap. The 1970s aside, oil has been cheap. The one real novelty, nuclear power, went spectacularly off the rails. The pressure to innovate has been minimal.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">In the space of a couple of years, all that has changed. Oil is no longer cheap; indeed, it has never been more expensive. Moreover, there is growing concern that the supply of oil may soon peak as consumption continues to grow, known supplies run out and new reserves become harder to find. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The idea of growing what you put in the tank of your car, rather than sucking it out of a hole in the ground, no longer looks like economic madness. Nor does the idea of throwing away the tank and plugging your car into an electric socket instead. Much of the world’s oil is in the hands of governments who have little sympathy with the rich West. When a former head of <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Central Intelligence Agency allies himself with tree-hugging greens that his outfit would once have suspected of subversion, you know something is up. Yet that is one tack James Woolsey is trying in order to reduce his country’s depend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SGCOwVgiHOI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/6Vc3DsCBzU0/s1600-h/Porsi+energi+alternatif1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SGCOwVgiHOI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/6Vc3DsCBzU0/s320/Porsi+energi+alternatif1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215325329553497314" border="0" /></a>ence on imported oil.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The price of natural gas, too, has risen in sympathy with oil. That is putting up the cost of electricity. Wind- and solar-powered alternatives no longer look so costly by comparison. It is true that coal remains cheap, and is the favoured fuel for power stations in industrialising <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>. But the rich world sees things differently. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">In theory, there is a long queue of coal-fired power stations waiting to be built in <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But few have been completed in the past 15 years and many in that queue have been put on hold or withdrawn, for two reasons. First, Americans have become intolerant of large, polluting industrial plants on their doorsteps. Second, American power companies are fearful that they will soon have to pay for one particular pollutant, carbon dioxide, as is starting to happen in other parts of the rich world. Having invested heavily in gas-fired stations, only to find themselves locked into an increasingly expensive fuel, they do not want to make another mistake. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">That has opened up a capacity gap and an opportunity for wind and sunlight. The future price of these resources—zero—is known. That certainty has economic value as a hedge, even if the capital cost of wind and solar power stations is, at the moment, higher than that of coal-fired ones.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The reasons for the boom, then, are tangled, and the way they are perceived may change. Global warming, a long-range phenomenon, may not be uppermost in people’s minds during an economic downturn. High fuel prices may fall as new sources of supply are exploited to fill rising demand from <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>. Security of supply may improve if hostile governments are replaced by friendly ones and sources become more diversified. But none of the reasons is likely to go away entirely. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Global warming certainly will not. “Peak oil”, if oil means the traditional sort that comes cheaply out of holes in the ground, probably will arrive soon. There is oil aplenty of other sorts (tar sands, liquefied coal and so on), so the stuff is unlikely to run out for a long time yet. But it will get more expensive to produce, putting a floor on the price that is way above today’s. And political risk will always be there—particularly for oil, which is so often associated with bad government for the simple reason that its very presence causes bad government in states that do not have strong institutions to curb their politicians.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><a name="a_prize_beyond_the_dreams_of_avarice"></a>A prize beyond the dreams of avarice</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The market for energy is huge. At present, the world’s population consumes about 15 terawatts of power. (A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts, and a gigawatt is the capacity of the largest sort of coal-fired power station.) That translates into a business worth $6 trillion a year—about a tenth of the world’s economic output—according to John Doerr, a venture capitalist who is heavily involved in the industry. And by 2050, power consumption is likely to have risen to 30 terawatts.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Scale is one of the important differences between the coming energy boom, if it materialises, and its recent predecessors—particularly those that relied on information technology, a market measured in mere hundreds of billions. Another difference is that new information technologies tend to be disruptive, forcing the replacement of existing equipment, whereas, say, building wind farms does not force the closure of coal-fired power stations. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">For both of these reasons, any transition from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable, alternative, green energy—call it what you will—is likely to be slow, as similar changes have been in the past (see chart 1). On the other hand, the scale of the market provides opportunities for alternatives to prove themselves at the margin and then move into the mainstream, as is happening with wind power at the moment. And some energy technologies do have the potential to be disruptive. Plug-in cars, for example, could be fuelled with electricity at a price equivalent to 25 cents a litre of petrol. That could shake up the oil, carmaking and electricity industries all in one go.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The innovation lull of the past few decades also provides opportunities for technological leapfrogging. Indeed, it may be that the field of energy gives the not-quite-booms in biotechnology and nanotechnology the industrial applications they need to grow really big, and that the three aspiring booms will thus merge into one.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The possibility of thus recapturing the good times of their youth has brought many well-known members of the “technorati” out of their homes in places like <st1:place><st1:city>Woodside</st1:city>, <st1:state>California</st1:state></st1:place>. Energy has become supercool. Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal, has developed a battery-powered sports car. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, have started an outfit called <a href="http://google.org/" target="_blank" title=" (opens in a new window) ">Google.org</a> that is searching for a way to make renewable energy truly cheaper than coal (or RE<c,></c,></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, is turning his considerable skills as a venture capitalist towards renewable energy, as are Robert Metcalfe, who invented the ethernet system used to connect computers together in local networks, and Mr Doerr, who works at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers, one of <st1:place>Silicon Valley</st1:place>’s best-known venture-capital firms. Sir Richard Branson, too, is getting in on the act with his Virgin Green Fund. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">This renewed interest in energy is bringing forth a raft of ideas, some bright, some batty, that is indeed reminiscent of the dotcom boom. As happened in that boom, most of these ideas will come to naught<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SGCPDZOZJhI/AAAAAAAAAMY/d3w2llrfhyI/s1600-h/Porsi+energi+alternatif2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SGCPDZOZJhI/AAAAAAAAAMY/d3w2llrfhyI/s320/Porsi+energi+alternatif2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215325656968668690" border="0" /></a>. But there could just be a PayPal or a Google or a Sun among them.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">More traditional companies are also taking an interest. General Electric (GE), a large American engineering firm, already has a thriving wind-turbine business and is gearing up its solar-energy business. The energy researchers at its laboratories in <st1:place><st1:city>Schenectady</st1:city>, <st1:state>New York</st1:state></st1:place>, enjoy much of the intellectual freedom associated with start-up firms, combined with a secure supply of money.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, BP and Shell, two of the world’s biggest oil companies, are sponsoring both academic researchers and new, small firms with bright ideas, as is DuPont, one of the biggest chemical companies. Not everyone has joined in. Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil company not in government hands, is conspicuously absent. But in many boardrooms renewables are no longer seen as just a way of keeping environmentalists off companies’ backs.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt=" " style="'width:202.5pt;height:333.75pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\maxweb\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.gif" href="http://media.economist.com/images/20080621/CSR356.gif"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/maxweb/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image003.gif" alt=" " title="" shapes="_x0000_i1025" border="0" height="445" width="270" /><!--[endif]--></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Some people complain that many existing forms of renewable energy rely on subsidies or other forms of special treatment for their viability. On the surface, that is true. Look beneath, though, and the whole energy sector is riddled with subsidies, both explicit and hidden, and costs that are not properly accounted for. Drawing on the work of people like Boyden Gray, a former White House counsel, Mr Woolsey estimates that American oil companies receive preferential treatment from their government worth more than $250 billion a year. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-appointed group of scientific experts, reckons that fossil fuels should carry a tax of $20-50 for every tonne of carbon dioxide they generate in order to pay for the environmental effects of burning them (hence the fears of the power-generators). </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So the subsidies and mandates offered to renewable sources of power such as wind turbines often just level the playing field. It is true that some subsidies amount to unwarranted market-rigging: examples include those handed by cloudy <st1:country-region><st1:place>Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> to its solar-power industry and by <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region> to its maize-based ethanol farmers when Brazilian sugar-based ethanol is far cheaper. Others, though, such as a requirement that a certain proportion of electricity be derived from non-fossil-fuel sources, make no attempt to pick particular technological winners. They merely act to stimulate innovation by guaranteeing a market to things that actually work.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">If the world were rational, all of these measures would be swept away and replaced by a proper tax on carbon—as is starting to happen in <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>, where the price arrived at by the cap-and-trade system being introduced is close to the IPCC’s recommendation. If that occurred, wind-based electricity would already be competitive with fossil fuels and others would be coming close. Failing that, special treatment for alternatives is probably the least bad option—though such measures need to be crafted in ways that favour neither incumbents nor particular ways of doing things, and need to be withdrawn when they are no longer necessary.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><a name="the_poor_world_turns_greener_too"></a>The poor world turns greener too</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">That, at least, is the view from the rich world. But poorer, rapidly developing countries are also taking more of an interest in renewable energy sources, despite assertions to the contrary by some Western politicians and businessmen. It is true that <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> is building coal-fired power stations at a blazing rate. But it also has a large wind-generation capacity, which is expected to grow by two-thirds this year, and is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of solar panels—not to mention having the largest number of solar-heated rooftop hot-water systems in its buildings. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Brazil, meanwhile, has the world’s second-largest (just behind America) and most economically honest biofuel industry, which already provides 40% of the fuel consumed by its cars and should soon supply 15% of its electricity, too (through the burning of sugarcane waste). <st1:country-region><st1:place>South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> is leading the effort to develop a new class of safe and simple nuclear reactor—not renewable energy in the strict sense, but carbon-free and thus increasingly welcome. These countries, and others like them, are prepared to look beyond fossil fuels. They will get their energy where they can. So if renewables and other alternatives can compete on cost, the poor and the rich world alike will adopt them.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">That, however, requires innovation. Such innovation is most likely to come out of the laboratories of rich countries. At a recent debate at <st1:place><st1:placename>Columbia</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, which <em>The Economist</em> helped to organise, Mr Khosla defended the proposition, “The United States will solve the climate-change problem”. The Californian venture capitalist argued that if cheaper alternatives to fossil fuels are developed, simple economics will ensure their adoption throughout the world. He also insisted that the innovation which will create those alternatives will come almost entirely out of <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">As it happens, he lost. But that does not mean he is wrong. There are lots of terawatts to play for and lots of money to be made. And if the planet happens to be saved on the way, that is all to the good.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Source : The Economist, June 19th, 2008<br /></p>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-84590993877862482962008-06-24T12:04:00.002+07:002008-06-24T12:17:03.495+07:00The future of energy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creativeconcern.com/newsletter/mimp/images/home.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 463px; height: 356px;" src="http://www.creativeconcern.com/newsletter/mimp/images/home.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think</span> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >SINCE the industrial revolution 200 years ago, mankind has depended on fossil fuel. The notion that this might change is hard to contemplate. Greens may hector. Consciences may nag. The central heating's thermostat may turn down a notch or two. A less thirsty car may sit in the drive. But actually stop using the stuff? Impossible to imagine: surely there isn't a serious alternative?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Such a failure of imagination has been at the heart of the debate about climate change. The green message—use less energy—is not going to solve the problem unless economic growth stops at the same time. If it does not (and it won't), any efficiency saving will soon be eaten up by higher consumption per head. Even the hair-shirt option, then, will bring only short-term relief. And when a dire prophecy from environmentalism's jeremiad looks as if it is coming true, as the price of petroleum rises through the roof and the idea that oil might run out is no longer whispered in corners but openly discussed, there is a temptation to believe that the end of the world is, indeed, nigh.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Not everyone, however, is so pessimistic. For, in the imaginations of a coterie of physicists, biologists and engineers, an alternative world is taking shape. As the <a href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11565685">special report</a> in this issue describes, plans for the end of the fossil-fuel economy are now being laid and they do not involve much self-flagellation. Instead of bullying and scaring people, the prophets of energy technology are attempting to seduce them. They promise a world where, at one level, things will have changed beyond recognition, but at another will have stayed comfortably the same, and may even have got better.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a name="this_time_it's_serious"></a></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >This time it's serious<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Alternative energy sounds like a cop-out. Windmills and solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to power a busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do. Battery-powered cars, meanwhile, are slightly comic: more like milk-floats than Maseratis. But the proponents of the new alternatives are serious. Though many are interested in environmental benefits, their main motive is money. They are investing their cash in ideas that they think will make them large amounts more. And for the alternatives to do that, they need to be both as cheap as (or cheaper than) and as easy to use as (or easier than) what they are replacing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >For oil replacements, cheap suddenly looks less of a problem. The biofuels or batteries that will power cars in the alternative future should beat petrol at today's prices. Of course, today's prices are not tomorrow's. The price of oil may fall; but so will the price of biofuels, as innovation improves crops, manufacturing processes and fuels. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Electrical energy, meanwhile, will remain cheaper than petrol energy in almost any foreseeable future, and tomorrow's electric cars will be as easy to fill with juice from a socket as today's are with petrol from a pump. Unlike cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells, of the sort launched by Honda this week, battery cars do not need new pipes to deliver their energy. The existing grid, tweaked and smartened to make better use of its power stations, should be infrastructure enough. What matters is the nature of those power stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a name="the_price_is_right"></a></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >The price is right<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >They, too, are more and more likely to be alternative. Wind power is taking on natural gas, which has risen in price in sympathy with oil. Wind is closing in on the price of coal, as well. Solar energy is a few years behind, but the most modern systems already promise wind-like prices. Indeed, both industries are so successful that manufacturers cannot keep up, and supply bottlenecks are forcing prices higher than they otherwise would be. It would help if coal—the cheapest fuel for making electricity—were taxed to pay for the climate-changing effects of the carbon dioxide produced when it burns, but even without such a tax, some ambitious entrepreneurs are already talking of alternatives that are cheaper than coal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Older, more cynical hands may find this disturbingly familiar. The last time such alternatives were widely discussed was during the early 1970s. Then, too, a spike in the price of oil coincided with a fear that natural limits to supply were close. The newspapers were full of articles on solar power, fusion and converting the economy to run on fuel cells and hydrogen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Of course, there was no geological shortage of oil, just a politically manipulated one. Nor is there a geological shortage this time round. But that does not matter, for there are two differences between then and now. The first is that this price rise is driven by demand. More energy is needed all round. That gives alternatives a real opening. The second is that 35 years have winnowed the technological wheat from the chaff. Few believe in fusion now, though uranium-powered fission reactors may be coming back into fashion. And, despite Honda's launch, the idea of a hydrogen economy is also fading fast. Thirty-five years of improvements have, however, made wind, solar power and high-tech batteries attractive. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >As these alternatives start to roll out in earnest, their rise, optimists hope, will become inexorable. Economies of scale will develop and armies of engineers will tweak them to make them better and cheaper still. Some, indeed, think alternative energy will be the basis of a boom bigger than information technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Whether that boom will happen quickly enough to stop the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching dangerous levels is moot. But without alternative energy sources such a rise is certain. The best thing that rich-world governments can do is to encourage the alternatives by taxing carbon (even knowing that places like </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > and </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > will not) and removing subsidies that favour fossil fuels. Competition should do the rest—for the fledgling firms of the alternative-energy industry are in competition with each other as much as they are with the incumbent fossil-fuel companies. Let a hundred flowers bloom. When they have, </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >, too, may find some it likes the look of. Therein lies the best hope for the energy business, and the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:&quot;;font-size:100%;" ><o:p>Source : The Economist, </o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date style="font-family: georgia;" year="2008" day="19" month="6">Jun 19th, 2008</st1:date></span><br /><br /></p>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-33243868054311958172008-05-06T14:23:00.002+07:002008-12-09T23:29:10.453+07:00Districts Are Success Parameters for Accomplishment of MDGs<div align="justify">By Rofiqy Hasan from TempoInteractive, Jakarta</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Emil Salim, a member of the President’s Consideration Board (Wantimpres), has said that the accomplishm<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SCAI1AfbnOI/AAAAAAAAAMI/fd_KEv_o7t4/s1600-h/EmilSalim2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197163676743474402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/SCAI1AfbnOI/AAAAAAAAAMI/fd_KEv_o7t4/s200/EmilSalim2.jpg" border="0" /></a>ent of Millenium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015 is extremely dependent on initiatives from districts and cities that have regional autonomy rights. “The central government cannot follow Suharto's stye anymore and regional governments cannot only wait,” he said in a High Level Dialog on Population and MDG forum in Kuta, Bali, on Monday (5/5).</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Some regions have succeeded in increasing their human development index as their leaders are able to use their regional potential for global and national needs. These are Bontang in East Kalimantan, Sragen in Central Java, and Jembrana in Bali. Because of this, Emil has rejected the proposal that all MDG policies be at the central government level.He said that the central government should empower regional leaders' capabilities in order to understand national interests.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Sugiri Syarief, Head of the National Family Planning Board (BKKBN), said he agreed with this statement. He went on to say that although regional autonomy has been running for almost ten years, officials at the central and regional level are still working in a centralization style. Therefore, program accomplishment is delayed. “Population control is the key for successful MDGs,” said Sugiri. </div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-22559852818329203612008-04-15T11:56:00.001+07:002008-04-15T12:02:10.451+07:00Food Crisis Can Start a War<div align="justify">By TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta<br /><br />The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned about the critical situation of the world food supply. According to the FAO director general, Jacques Diouf, the food supply is five percent lower than last year. “This is also the lowest supply in the last 20 years,” he said in Rome, Italy, approaching a 13th FAO meeting in Brazil that will be held today until April 18th.Diouf said the crisis is due to the higher food demand in several countries. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">The global climate change causing natural disasters like floods, drought, and storms has delayed food production. As a result, the price of staple foods like bread, wheat, rice, and milk, have increased. The price of whea<a href="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/12/PH2008041200355.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/04/12/PH2008041200355.jpg" border="0" /></a>t and rice is two times higher than last year while maize has gone up more than three times. “The world food price will be hard to decrease in the short term,” said Diouf. “The expensive price of world food threatens millions, especially those who come from a country with income less than US$ 1 a day,” he said.Diouf who comes from Senegal finds fault with the food policy of developed and developing countries. Since 1996, FAO has been warning about this food crisis situation. “No one wants to hear about it, now we have to pay for it.”Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the increase of the world food price can cause serious problems and effect the world.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">It will create more poverty and starvation. “It can ignite riots and even war,” he said in Washington yesterday.In Jakarta, the Directorate General for Food, Agricultural Department, Soetarto Alimuso, said that the government is aware of this world food crisis. But he is optimistic that Indonesia will be secure because national supply and production, especially rice, is still sufficient. He mentioned that in 2007, Indonesia had a rice excess of one million tons. This is believed to be increased into 1.3 million tons this year. “So, we are optimistic that we will not have a food crisis,” he said to Tempo in Jakarta yesterday.The government will continue the food diversification program, especially for maize and all kinds of tubers. “So we will not depend on rice only,” he said. To minimize the world food crisis, agriculture minister, Anton Apriyantono, has been requesting that rice storage in the village be activated. Government is also encouraging the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) and regional governments to fill the food supply.<br /><br />Sources : AP AFP OUTLOOK INDIA.COM PADJAR ISWARA AMIRULLAH</div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-67062810561805310022008-03-16T19:39:00.001+07:002008-03-16T19:55:36.475+07:00Indonesians are Thirsty of Biotechnology<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Who said that the Indonesian students are not interested in science? Indonesian<o:p></o:p></span></p><div> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Biotechnology Students Forum with supports from various institutions held<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">iBiotech 2008 successfully. This event had attracted more than 1500 junior and<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">senior high school students and more than 200 science teachers in four cities;<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jakarta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Bandung</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">, </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Yogyakarta</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">, and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Surabaya</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">, 3-10 March 2008. IBSF and<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">partner institutions introduced what and how biotechnology can be applied in<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">daily lives and its benefits through interactive ways; multimedia and 7 fun handto-<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">hand experiments. “I didn’t know that biotechnology is fun – usually we just<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">skip this subject during classes” Dimple, a student from Lab School Senior High<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">School </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jakarta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> said.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">“I am impressed by how much Indonesian students know about Biotechnology. I<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">have never discussed in such high level with students their age”, praised Terry<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Vrijenhoek, Chairman of Genomic Networks of Young Scientists (GeNeYouS) in<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Netherlands</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">, who was invited in this event to contribute in challenging<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">discussions with the Indonesian students. Therefore, we have to be proud to<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">boast future potential human resources in the country.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Positive and warm welcomes to this successful event have been received from<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">many people as it was also given by Prof. Suhartono Taat Putra from Medical<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Faculty, </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">University</span></st1:PlaceType><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Airlangga</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">. He was pleased with the initiative from the<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">iBiotech committee to communicate science to young students in such a way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">This is in line with the dialogue of Kusmayanto Kadiman, Minister of Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">and Technology with Prof. Abdul Kalam, President from India 2002-2007 few<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">months ago in National Science Congress 2007 in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Jakarta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">. He said,” Nothing I<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">can suggest better than you start introducing science to the youths, the earlier,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">the better…” dan </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica-Oblique;">we make it happened through iBiotech as a first step!</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-22916980822306308442008-03-02T05:28:00.002+07:002008-03-02T07:12:57.537+07:00Creating New Life a Little Like GodWhen you are sealed God gives you new life. He creates you anew as if you were a new variation of your old self. That is what scientist Craig Venter is doing--creating new species of life to solve the world's problems.<br /><div align="justify"><br />Craig Venter is known as a pioneer in human genome mapping and he is the first person to have published his own genetic code on the internet. He has also published an autobiography.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />But what Craig Venter is doing now is something remarkable. He has created an organism that is basically a new species. It is a single-celled organism, certainly nothing so complex as a human.</div><a href="http://www.poptech.org/images/speakers/speaker232_large.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.poptech.org/images/speakers/speaker232_large.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><br />He has not created any life forms from scratch. That is left to God to do. What he has done is created an alteration in the genetics of the organism so distinct that the resulting living creature could be considered a new and different species.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Venter and his team created a chromosome to put in the cell of an organism already living. When the cell divided, the resulting parts were a new breed, a new chemically altered life form.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />And he has big dreams for what his created organisms could do for people. These organisms could be bred in great amounts and used to rid the sky of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.<br />Other organisms could become an energy supply, heating your home and fueling your car. That would be quite an accomplishment--cleaning up pollution while giving you a renewable form of energy.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />In an interview with ABC TV, Craig Venter says he envisions the ability to produce electricity and clean water with his organisms. What would you use to "fuel" the production of electricity and water? Human waste!</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />This could be one way the poor people of the world are lifted out of poverty. All the poor have an abundance of certain kinds of resources like human waste wherein is locked a great amount of energy waiting to be released.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Of course this all comes with a caveat. "Knowledge," Venter said in the interview, "can be dangerous in the wrong hands." Someone will always come along and pervert breakthroughs meant to benefit people.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />One of the concerns with genetic mapping is health insurance. Some people have a predisposition to certain medical conditions they inherited in their genetics. If the insurance people could know a person was likely to get sick they could deny them coverage.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />And many companies are now privately insuring their employees. So people could qualify or disqualify for employment according to their genetic code. Venter calls for protection against abuses like these that come with knowledge of the genetic code.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />God knows what is in your genetic code. And He is willing to make you a new creature. Then you can be used for the benefit of mankind. You may not fuel their home or clean their skies but you can be a blessing to them.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />When God puts the Seal on your forehead He calls you by His own Name. When God refers to you as Himself, the boundaries between you and Him are blurred. You have attributes of the Divine just by reason of association.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />And you may not become a new species. But when you are sealed you will become new. And you will see yourself as a completely different person. It will not all happen overnight but you will change as years go by when you receive the Seal.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />And now Jason invites you to get your FREE report <a id="link_82" href="http://www.sealsecrets.com/" target="_new">Are You Making These Mistakes as a Christian?</a>And visit to learn about being sealed <a id="link_83" href="http://www.sealofthesoul.com/" target="_new">here</a>.<br />Jason Witt<br />Article Source: <a id="link_84" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_Witt">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jason_Witt</a></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-69132221383113548112008-02-21T11:27:00.000+07:002008-02-21T11:28:25.770+07:00Algae -A Solution to the End of Oil?<h3 class="entry-header"><br /></h3> <div class="entry-body"> <p><em><a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/16/end_of_oil.jpg"><img src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/01/16/end_of_oil.jpg" title="End_of_oil" alt="End_of_oil" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" border="0" height="313" width="205" /></a> "All countries must take vigorous, immediate and collective action to curb runaway energy demand. The next ten years will be crucial for all countries... We need to act now to bring about a radical shift in investment in favor of cleaner, more efficient and more secure energy technologies."</em> </p> <p>~Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA)</p> <p>Big oil had better start worrying. Common algae from ponds and waste-water treatment plants has been found to produce vast amounts of burnable oil, say researchers at the University of Minnesota, algae produces an astounding 5,000 gallons of oil per acre. Corn, by comparison, produces a measly 18 gallons. Soybean yields 48 gallons. An acre of palm trees yields 635 gallons. </p> </div> <p>Algae has a clear advantage in other ways as well. Land crops use up more resources and require more manpower to grow. Algae, on the other hand, is so hardy that it grows all by itself in conditions that require little to no management.Researchers Roger Ruan and Paul Chen will start with 200 gallons of waste water, but see the potential as enormous. The only liability they have to deal with now is how to produce the fuel cheaply. They believe it will be able to be made affordable as the technology improves and starts to catch on. </p> <p>Exxon claims “We're not gouging US citizens,” after raking in record breaking $39.5 billion in 2007, the largest ever profit in the history of the US. </p> <p>As society gets increasingly fed up with big oil, opportunities for new energy sources are opening up.The algae production process can also take advantage of excess heat, nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus produced by coal-burning plants and waste-water incinerators, making algae pond farms a possibility for both northern and southern states. </p> <p>Posted by Rebecca Sato.</p> <p><em>If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on <strong><a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a>, <a href="http://www.reddit.com/">Reddit</a>, </strong>or <strong><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a></strong>.Thanks!</em></p> <p>Links:</p> http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/11/26/72164691<br />http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2008/01/15/algae_hasARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-91144873994830203602008-02-21T11:19:00.003+07:002008-12-09T23:29:10.885+07:00Laeder of Pioneering Cosmetics Firm<strong style="font-weight: normal;">By <a href="http://execblogger.com">Ari Satriyo Wibowo</a><br /></strong>Published at The Jakarta Post on January 30, 2008<br /><strong><br /><br /></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">While</span></strong> the UK has Anita Roddick, an ordinary housewife and environmentalist who set up The Body Shop, Indonesia should be proud of having Dr. Retno Iswari Tranggono, SpKK who is a housewife, dermatologist, established cosmetics scientist and producer of well-known cosmetics brand Ristra.<br /><br />Retno's interest in the cosmetics industry started when she, as a fifth-year student of the University of Indonesia's School of Medicine, was asked by a neighbor to become an instructor at her skin care school Viva Health and Beauty Institute. The neighbor, Bo Tan Tjoa, better known as Ibu Antari, was the co-owner of skin care firm Viva Kosmetic in Semarang.<br /><br />After completing a specialized program in dermatology at the University of Indonesia's School of Medicine in 1968, she proposed setting up a department specifically dedicated to handling cosmetics and beauty problems. She received support from the school's head of the dermatology and venereology department, Prof. M. Djoewari, who said: "If you believe doctors will be interested in this science and that it is important to the public, go ahead and set up."<br /><br />On April 1, 1970, the sub-department of cosmetics and skin surgery (now called the cosmeto-dermatology sub-department) was officially set up with Dr. Retno as the head. Within a short time, this sub-department became a favorite. Many doctors have taken this sub-specialization because many patients want beauty treatment.<br /><br />Before the establishment of the sub-department, the dermatology and venereology department was not popular and dermatologists were considered "poor doctors". "Doctors were reluctant to join this department because of the additional label of venereology. So, when I applied for this department, I was readily accepted. At that time, there were only three females, including myself," said Dr. Retno, who was born in Jakarta on Nov. 17, 1939.<br /><br />After practicing for quite a long time as a dermatologist, it became clearer to Dr. Retno that there were problems in the skin treatment applied in Indonesia. The treatment method was <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/R7z9BPlBkCI/AAAAAAAAAMA/7rjk9mYXgr0/s1600-h/dr%2BRetno%2BTranggono,SpKK.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/R7z9BPlBkCI/AAAAAAAAAMA/7rjk9mYXgr0/s320/dr%2BRetno%2BTranggono,SpKK.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169284670118006818" border="0" /></a>based on knowledge dating back to colonial times while the pharmaceutical world did not support skin treatment as not many drugs for skin treatment were available. Also, imported products did not necessarily suit skin in the tropics. In short, there were problems in skin treatment in this country. Even the medicine available to fight acne was ineffective. "I often ask my patients how they clean their faces. They never used soap to clean their faces because their beauticians prohibit it. If they consult a doctor, they are advised to stop using cosmetics and are referred to a beauty salon," said Retno, who has three children and six grandchildren.<br /><br />Even at a beauty salon, the practice was wrong as soap was not allowed to be used. "That is the principle prevailing in Holland, where the climate is cold and dry. In Holland, for example, you shouldn't wash your face but instead use cold cream. In a tropical country, if you apply cold cream and powder to your face, acne will appear," she added.<br /><br />According to Retno, there are four factors affecting the use of cosmetics that have good or bad results. These are human beings, cosmetics, the environment and the correlation between human beings, cosmetics and the environment. Dr. Retno calls this knowledge "The Science of Beauty".<br /><br />The human beings factor is concerned with the difference in skin color. Asians generally have olive skin while European have fair skin. People from different races also have different beauty behaviors. As a result, the effects of cosmetics will also differ. Insufficient knowledge about cosmetics will lead to mistakes in their usage. As for the cosmetics factor, this is related, for example, to poor raw materials, formulation not suiting skin type and the environment and an unhygienic and unsophisticated manufacturing process that may lead to irritation, allergies and acne. The third factor is the environment. In tropical countries like Indonesia, people perspire more and their skin may be oily. That's why when Asians use cold cream and creamy moisturizer made specifically for the European climate, the moisturizer can clog the pores and cause acne.<br /><br />In 1983, Retno was at a crossroads: continue teaching and pursuing her studies to be a professor or go into the industry to produce quality cosmetics. Retno and her husband, Dr. Suharto Tranggono, SpKJ, SpKP, a psychiatrist working for the Indonesian Air Force, eventually opted to build their business. This business, now under the flagship of PT Ristra Indolab, began in the garage of their house in the Air Force compound on Jl. Rajawali Selatan, North Jakarta, in 1983.<br /><br />As Indonesia has a tropical climate with a lot of sunshine, Indonesians characteristically have brown skin. To the majority of the public, however, beautiful skin is fair. That's why special cosmetics are needed that suit Asian's olive complexion and tropical environment. All Ristra's products, ranging from skin treatment, hair treatment to makeup, are produced to suit the characteristics of the skin of Asians.<br /><br />In the late 1990s, Ristra produced as many as 82 items. Every Ristra product must reflect its scientific quality. That's why in 1983 Retno set up a research and development laboratory, PT Ristra Indolab, which is headed by a pharmacist who graduated in Germany, Dr. Rosali Setiawan. Retno is involved in the laboratory's activities to produce new formulas. She introduces concepts for new products, tests the technical feasibility of these products and guarantees the effectiveness and security of the products.<br /><br />Sometimes, Retno herself leads the R&amp;D activities. One outstanding achievement is the finding of PH Balanced and Radical Protection Factor concept, which has won recognition from the international world. Her latest finding, which is based on nano technology, is the formulation for PCO (Proanthocyanidin Oligimer) as the main material for Platinum Skin Care, which, when combined with Nanotope, can go through the epidermic layer so that active substances work effectively. With this achievement, Ristra has become Indonesia's first cosmetics company to apply nanotechnology.<br /><br />In order to ensure a re-generation in the company's management, Retno asked her son, Krisna Nindita Tranggono, a master graduate of several American universities, to join the company.<br /><br />As cosmeto-dermatology leans more toward instant beauty, Dr. Retno took the initiative to set up the Ristra Institute of Skin Health and Beauty Science in 2006 to ensure that cosmeto-dermatology will not deviate too much from its original track. The people who attend this institute are doctors and medical personnel dealing in beauty matters. "For one whole week they are taught the principles of medical cosmetics. These principles must be understood so that they will not be duped by a quick and instant way to make them rich," she said.<br /><br />In appreciation of her outstanding achievements in the cosmetics industry, BRI Platinum Card conferred on Dr. Retno the "Life Time Achievement Award" on Dec. 5, 2007. When asked about her ideals, Dr. Retno simply said, "I would like Indonesians to have clean and healthy skin. It is not beauty that comes instantly but beauty that will be long-lasting." (<strong>Ari Satriyo Wibowo</strong>)<br /><br /></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-8796368029936975602008-02-12T07:09:00.000+07:002008-02-12T07:27:06.859+07:00How to Kill Your Mother in Law<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">A long time ago in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family:georgia;"><st1:place><span style="">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:georgia;"> , a girl named Li-Li got married &amp; went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn't get along with her mother-in-law at all. <span style=""> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many of her mother-in-law's habits. </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly. Days passed, and weeks passed. Li-Li and her mother-in-law </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">never stopped arguing and fighting. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">But what made the situation even worse was that, according to ancient Chinese tradition, Li-Li had to bow </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">to her mother-in-law and obey herevery wish. All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing Li-Li's poor </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">husband!<span style=""> </span>great distress.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><pre style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/clothing/pictures/tangyinming.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/clothing/pictures/tangyinming.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></pre> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span><pre face="georgia" style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style="">Finally, Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-! law's bad temper and dictatorship any longer, and<br />she decided to do something about it </span><span style="">! Li-Li went to see her father's good friend, Mr. Huang, who sold herbs. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that she could solve the problem once</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> and for all.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Mr. Huang thought for awhile, and finally said, "Li-Li, I will help you solve your problem, but you must listen to</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">me and obey what I tell you."<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Li-Li said, "Yes, Mr. Huang, I will do whatever you tell me to do."Mr. Huang went</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> in</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">to the back room, and returned in a few minutes with a package of herbs. He told Li-Li, "You can't use</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> a quick-acting poison to get rid of your mother-in-law, because that would cause people to become suspicious.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs that will slowly build</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> up poison in her body.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Every other day prepare some delicious meal and put a little of these herbs in her serving.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Now, in order to make</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> sure that nobody suspect you, when she dies, you must be very careful to act very friendly towards her. "Don't argue</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> with her, obey her every wish, and treat her like a queen." Li-Li was so happy. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">She thanked Mr. Huang and</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> hurried home to start her plot of murdering her mother-in-law. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Weeks went by, and months went by, and</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> every other day, Li-Li served the specially treated food to her mother-in-law. She remembered what Mr. Huang</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> had said about avoiding suspicion, so she controlled her temper obeyed her mother-in-law, and treated her like</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> her own mother. After six months had passed, the whole household had changed. Li-Li had practiced controlling</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> her temper so much that she found that she almost never got mad or upset. She hadn't had an argument with her</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> mother-in-law in six months because she now seemed much kinder and easier to get along with.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />The mother-in-law</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">'s attitude toward Li-Li changed, and she began to love Li-Li like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> relative <span style=""> </span>that Li-Li was the best daughter-in-law one could ever find. Li-Li and her mother-in-law were now</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> treating each other like a real mother and daughter.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Li-Li's husband was very happy to see what was happening.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">One day, Li-Li came to see Mr. Huang and asked for his help again She said, "Dear Mr. Huang, please help me to</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> keep the poison from killing my mother-in-law. She's changed into such a nice woman, and I love her like my own</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> mother. I do not want her to die because of the poison I gave her."<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Mr. Huang smiled and nodded his head.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />"Li-Li, there's nothing to worry about. I never gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were vitamins to</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> improve her health. The only poison was in your mind and your attitude toward her, but that has been all washed</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> away by the love which you gave to her."<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">HAVE YOU REALIZED that how you treat others is exactly how they</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> will treat you? There is a wise Chinese saying : "The person who loves others will also be loved in return." God</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> might be trying to work in another person's life through you. Send this to your friends and spread the</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> POWER OF LOVE</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><pre style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><tt><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre></div><span style=""></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-47138628494840230142008-02-10T00:06:00.000+07:002008-02-10T00:08:55.430+07:00Actual Embryonic Stem Cells Derived Without Killing The Embryos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/images/448260a-f1.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/images/448260a-f1.2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div id="body"><p>When you receive the Seal you will understand the value of human life. Now (Jan 12 2008) human embryo stem cells have been produced from embryos without destroying the embryos.</p><p>In the last few months of 2007 there were breakthroughs in producing cells that were very much like human embryo stem cells (hESC) from ordinary skin cells. That was a tremendous breakthrough itself.</p><p>But hESC is still considered the "gold standard" for research and is still considered highly valuable and even necessary for research. Now thanks to this new research, it is possible to create hESC without killing embryos.</p><p>In 2006 a study showed that hESC could be derived from a single blastomere. A blastomere is the kind of cell created by the embryo in the very first week following fertilization when the embryo begins to divide.</p><p>But in that first study in 2006, many cells were taken out of each embryo so that they could not develop anymore. In this study, researchers derived five hESC lines without destroying the embryos, including one without co-culture.</p><p>Co-culture is the growth of distinct cell types in a combined culture. This meant that stem cells were needed from other embryos that ended up being destroyed. Co-culture is not a necessary part of this new procedure.</p><p>In this procedure, single blastomeres were taken out of the embryos using a process similar to preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD.) PGD is a procedure whereby embryos are made free of disease before implantation.</p><p>The "biopsied" embryos were further grown until they became blastocysts and then were frozen (instead of killed.) A biopsy is the removal of cells from the embryo, and the blastocyst stage is right after the zygote stage and before the embryo is known as an "embryo."</p><p>The blastomeres were cultured with a technique that was comparable in efficiency to "whole embryo derivations" which destroy the embryos. This is important--the high level of efficiency makes it a viable procedure.</p><p>And the derived stem cell lines had the same kind of pluripotency as whole embryo derivations. Pluripotency is the ability of the stem cell to become a cell of any of the three germ layers--ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.</p><p>The White House still needs to approve this new technique as a way to get stem cells without destroying the embryos. But this is a major advancement in science--a step forward for the sanctity of life.</p><p>This is a solution to the ethical problem of stem-cell research, since embryos can now "share" their life-giving cells with researchers who desperately need them, and still grow up to be healthy adults.</p><p>When you are sealed you will begin to understand the sanctity of life. You will understand how God gave Life to people in the beginning and continues to give Life to them.</p><p>Of course, the greater kind of life is spiritual Life. The life in this world is a gift from God but the spiritual Life for eternity in Heaven is the ultimate gift and much better than the short and miserable opportunity in this world.</p><p>When you are sealed God will give you new life. He will give you a second chance. And He will give you the chance to live forever with Him in Heaven when you receive the Seal.</p></div><div id="sig" class="sig"><p>And now Jason invites you to get your FREE report <a id="link_82" target="_new" href="http://www.sealsecrets.com/">Are You Making These Mistakes as a Christian?</a><br />And <a id="link_83" target="_new" href="http://www.sealofthesoul.com/">"Get God's Seal of Approval and Get the Victory Over Evil"</a><br />Jason Witt</p><div><p>Article Source: <a id="link_84" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_Witt">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jason_Witt</a></p></div></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-53985518929491218552007-12-21T08:55:00.000+07:002007-12-21T08:59:03.067+07:00The Amazon Kindle Top 5 Cool Things To Do<div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">We are all know that the latest gadget that Amazon has recently released is it's new Kindle. A wireless electronic reader that allows you to read eBooks, blogs and news online. But there are so much more that the Kindle can do so I've created a quick list of the Top 5 fun things to do with your Kindle.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">1. Take it to a Trivia Night. With instant wireless access to Wikipedia, you'll be able to get every answer correct! No more racking your brai<a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/6032-newsweekkindle.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/6032-newsweekkindle.jpg" border="0" /></a>n trying to figure out the answer, you'll always have it at your fingertips.<br />2. Have battery life races with your friends. With the long battery life you'll be able to leave it switched on for days without recharging. See if your Kindle can outlast your friends. Or which one will recharge the fastest? The Kindle fully recharges in around two hours, so time it and see for yourself. Create a chart and time your personal best charging times.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">3. Brag to your friends about reading the latest New York Times Bestseller before they do! You can download the latest bestsellers straight onto your reader in minutes. No more lining up at the bookstore overnight waiting for classics like Harry Potter to be released ever again. Just one quick download and you can be reading it before your friends even reach the cash register.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">4. Bookmark your favorite part in the book for quick return later. Want to remember that awesome quote so that you can try and impress your date tonight? That's easily fixed! The bookmarking feature means that you can add notes in the margin of the book and find it again super fast.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">5. Playing Scrabble with your Dad again? Then use the built-in New Oxford American dictionary so you can seamlessly look up the meanings of a word to prove they exist. Never lose another game again.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">There are many more fun uses for the Amazon Kindle. </span><a id="link_78" href="http://www.squidoo.com/amazons-kindle" target="_New"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Click here to view the latest reviews and get more information</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Article Source: </span><a id="link_79" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tracey_A_Edwards"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tracey_A_Edwards</span></a></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-62718104110713829812007-12-21T08:48:00.000+07:002007-12-21T08:55:01.805+07:00Amazon Kindle<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">So what is Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device?<br /><br />Basically it's a very cool little gadget that allows you to read newspapers, books, magazines, blogs and other cool stuff on this little handheld machine.<br /><br />It is wireless which means that you can take it anywhere and really lightweight (no more lugging around heavy books!).<br /><br />But the best thing about the Kindle is that you can download over 90,000 books including nearly all of the New York Times Best Sellers and have them on your reader in less than a minute. Who needs ever to go to a book store again?<br /></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">I became interested in the Kindle a few months back and just had to get one, after all I am a bit of a gadget freak, and I'm really pleased I did as it's so ultra handy. I'm in Australia, so getting the latest US newspapers and books usually means waiting around for them to be delivered to our bookstore and they are sometimes at least 2 weeks to a month late. Not anymore! This little beauty means I can have them nearly instantly.</span></div><a href="http://www.pocketnow.com/html/portal/news/0000004740/NewsImage/kindle.jpg"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.pocketnow.com/html/portal/news/0000004740/NewsImage/kindle.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">At first I was a bit worried about how easy it would be to read off a little screen, but it is actually surprisingly easy. Apparently the technology works by producing a paper and ink effect (like a regular book) so it's very easy on the eyes and you don't get that 'glare' like you do reading from a computer screen.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">If you have a favorite part in a book, it's really easy to search and find the information you are looking for too. </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Another thing that I've found really useful is that you have instant access to Wikipedia which comes in handy when you are arguing with your Dad over some obscure fact!</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Reading the reviews over at Amazon, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Kindle isn't all it's cracked up to be, but on further investigation you will notice that most of the negative reviews are from people that don't even own a Kindle!</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">There main arguments being that it's too expensive or why would they want to read a book on a little machine instead of their computer. Interestingly enough these were the same arguments we heard about cell phones and iPods - and look how popular they are now!</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Overall I think the Kindle is very cool, and if you can afford it then this little gadget is definitely recommended.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Tracey thinks the Kindle is very cool. For a more indepth review of the Kindle and what it can do, visit </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/amazons-kindle/" target="_new"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">http://www.squidoo.com/amazons-kindle/</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"><br />Article Source: </span><a id="link_80" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tracey_Edwards"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tracey_Edwards</span></a></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-76610474848308128142007-11-15T16:09:00.000+07:002007-11-15T16:11:48.515+07:00Advantages & Disadvantages of Owning An Internet Business Franchise<div align="justify"><br />Many people think that because they didn’t have the technical or online business experience and it seemed that it is impossible for them to own a successful internet business. However, that really isn’t the case at all. There are some internet business franchise opportunities available that do not require much technical experience and they are perfect for individuals who have that entrepreneurial spirit,and like to start an internet business fast.</div><div align="justify"><br />When considering life as an entrepreneur, it is important to understand the definitions of an internet business franchise. Of course, it does have its own advantages and disadvantage. In this article we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of owning an internet business franchise.</div><div align="justify"><br />INTERNET BUSINESS FRANCHISE: An internet business franchise is a right granted to an individual or company to market a company’s goods or services on internet. The franchisor (the internet business franchise owner) sells the rights with the turnkey solution to the franchisee and then typically receives a franchising fee for ongoing online support &amp; product updating, therefore having a vested interest in the success of each franchise.</div><div align="justify"><br />Internet Business Franchising is a new concept in internet business and is currently promoted heavily by Internet Business Franchise Expert like Kelvin Cho. Today many such internet business franchise opportunities are available on the Web. Examples of internet business franchises include lingerie products, wholesale-idea.com, and shopster.com.</div><div align="justify"><br />Advantages:</div><div align="justify"><br />* There is a higher likelihood of success since a proven business formula is in place. The products, services, and business operations have already been established. And internet business franchise has the lowest cost compare to the offline franchisee business.</div><div align="justify"><br />* Instead of handling all the product sourcing, website maintaining, shipping, payment and customer support. The franchisee can focus on only online marketing efforts to promote the internet business franchise instead of taking care of all the things.</div><div align="justify"><br />* Internet Business Franchisor usually provide extensive online training and support to their franchisees in effort to help them succeed.</div><div align="justify"><br />* Many times the brand name products and services are advertised online by the main franchise companies to establish brand awareness. This practice helps boost sales for all internet business franchisees, but individual franchisees don’t absorb the cost.</div><div align="justify"><br />Disadvantages:</div><div align="justify"><br />* Internet Business franchises charge ongoing royalties cutting into the profits of franchisees.<br />* Internet Business Franchisors usually require franchisees to follow their operations manual to a tee in order to ensure consistency. This limits any creativity on the part of the franchisee. Internet Business Franchisees may not allow you to sell your own products on your webstore.<br />* Internet Business Franchisees must spend most of its time to run its online marketing activities and recruit its own agent (a.k.a Affiliates) independently.</div><div align="justify"><br />Sometimes internet business franchisors may be lax on their commitment to provide a good customer support. Also, they may make poor decisions that would have an ill effect on the internet business franchisee. Therefore, it may be a good idea to test out the internet business franchisee system and make sure it provides the good customer services before buying one.</div><div align="justify"><br />It is suggested you contact an internet business franchise consultant to discuss which internet business franchising is right for you.</div><div align="justify"><br />Kelvin Cho is the well established self made successful e-traders; he is running a highly successful trading firm based on Guangzhou, China as well as an e-commerce consulting firm giving valuable and practical advices and guidance to online traders to maximize their sourcing and trading needs. He has established a success internet business franchisee network and have helped many people to success on running those internet business franchise.<br /></div><div align="justify">Article Source: <a id="link_72" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kelvin_Cho">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kelvin_Cho</a></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-1437800488206708512007-11-15T16:01:00.000+07:002007-11-15T16:03:59.082+07:00Four Keys to Product LaunchingDo you have a new product? Then, it's high time that you introduce it into the market. But do you know that launching a product may not be as easy as you think? It's because it does involve time, effort, and money. If you don't do it right, it will not only make your product launching a flop, but it will surely damage your reputation.<br /><br />Here are 4 key ways to the best kind of product launching:<br /><br />1. Develop your own pre-launch. Before you can actually proceed to the product launch, you still need to come up with a pre-launch. There are many ways on how to do this. You can paste some posters within your community, distribute flyers and brochures, or set up your own website. The most important thing is you are able to create interest among your target customers. Definitely, it will allow them to look forward to the actual product launch.<br /><br />2. Don't forget to prepare your contact forms and thank-you notes. Appreciation is your first step in gaining in your target market's trust. It is extremely essential that you are able to express how much you value the presence of your visitors during your product launch. Also, you can gather contact information that you can make use of when you are going to make your follow-up.<br /><br />3. Market continuously. A product launch can only be a one-time thing. So you can continue to maintain the momentum you have created, as well as to ensure that you are able to establish brand awareness among your customers, make sure that you can develop follow-up projects.<br /><br />4. Plan properly. The key to everything is proper planning. When you have organized every aspect of your product launch, you can already foresee problems and come up with viable solutions before they occur.<br /><br />Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to product launching success, 'Secrets of Product Launching'<br /><br />Download it free here: <a id="link_68" href="http://www.secrets-of-internet-success.com/2ezproductlaunching.html" target="_blank">Product Launching Secrets</a><br />Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.<br />Article Source: <a id="link_69" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize</a>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-82031379490015243062007-11-11T05:10:00.000+07:002007-11-11T05:11:39.720+07:00"5 Super Easy Secrets To A Winning Domain Name"<p>(C) Copyright Ewen Chia, <a href="http://www.ezinearticle.com/">http://www.ezinearticle.com/</a> </p> <p>Are you having sleepless nights thinking of the right domain name for your online business?</p> <p>Everyone and everyone's grandmother knows by now why having your own domain is so important. To sum it up, here're the main advantages :</p> <p>- It shows You are serious about your business</p> <p>- It creates instant credibility for your business</p> <p>- It creates a branding for your business</p> <p>- It builds your online identity and is easily remembered</p> <p>- It can be an excellent marketing tool when used correctly</p> <p>- It can be an investment and intellectual property owned by YOU</p> <p>Needless to say, having your own domain is an absolute NECCESSITY if you're serious about doing business online. But aren't all the good domain names gone you say?</p> <p>It's true that most short or one-word or generic names are taken up, BUT you can still win at the domain name game by following these simple steps.</p> <p>Here are the 5 super easy secrets to a winning domain name anytime!</p> <p>1. BRANDING</p> <p>Every business needs to be branded, and that does not exclude your online business. Now what's branding in simple terms? </p> <p>It's an identity that you want your customers to remember you by, and the best way to do that online is by your domain name. For instance, your business branding may be "Best Quality Service", so why not use BestQualityService.com as your domain name if it's still available for registration?</p> <p>This is a great way of creating a CONSISTENT branding and identity.</p> <p>2. PHRASING</p> <p>How about using familiar or unique phrases as your domain name? This can help differentiate your site and heighten recall factor. </p> <p>You can think up many catch-phrases for domain branding, how about "CowJumpsOverTheMoon", "MakeLoveNotWar", "SaleOfTheCentury", etc?</p> <p>But it's important that the phrases you use is aligned to your business, you wouldn't want to use a domain like CheapAndGood.com when you're selling high end premium products, it just doesn't gel.</p> <p>3. KEYWORDING</p> <p>An important and smart approach to selecting domain names used by many marketers is to create the domain based on rich keywords relating to their businesses. The reason behind this lies in the fact that it helps enhance search engine rankings, especially pay-per-click listings which is essentially a bidding on top keywords.</p> <p>As an example, if your site deals with golf improvement, you may want to identify your main keywords and come up with a domain like "improve-golf-lower-scores.com"?</p> <p>My personal example is my site at <a href="http://www.instantmarketingsecrets.com/">http://www.instantmarketingsecrets.com/</a> which utilises the keywords 'Marketing' and 'Marketing Secrets'.</p> <p>4. EXPIRED AND EXPIRING</p> <p>A wonderful method of grabbing quality domain names is by registering domains that had expired or will be expiring. 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There're three main ways to go about this :</p> <p>- Email the webmaster of the existing domain about your interest and intention.</p> <p>- Bidding and buying at domain auction, sale sites like <a href="http://www.afternic.com/">http://www.Afternic.com</a>.</p> <p>- Typing in the name you need and you may land on a 'for sale' page.</p> <p>Can you STILL Win the domain name game? </p> <p>You bet You can!</p> <p>About the author:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Discover Ewen Chia’s Secret Affiliate Weapon<br />To Force Avalanches Of Instant Cash Into Your<br />Bank Account Fast…Even If You Don't Have<br />A List, Website Or Product! 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Sell a product/service</strong><br /><br />First you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually an e-book or software works the best – they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.<br /><br /><strong>2. Opt-In list</strong><br /><br />It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.<br /><br />With an opt-in list, there are tons of ways you can profit further into the future. You can build repeat customers and turn your list members into partners for your products. For an example of a good opt-in page, visit <a href="http://www.instantmarketingsecrets.com/">http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com</a><br /><br /><strong>3. Viral marketing</strong><b><br /></b><br />You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own traffic, publicity and branding without needing to spend a cent.<br /><br /><strong>4. 'Pay-per-click'</strong><b><br /></b><br />In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.<br /><br />When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.<br /><br /><strong>5. Offer an advertising space</strong><b><br /></b><br />Targeted niche websites with high traffic can 'rent' a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example you can charge $300 per month in advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day. I use this strategy at my Online Marketing Secrets blog at <a href="http://www.ewenchia.com/">http://www.EwenChia.com</a><br /><br />Other than that, you can also generate advertising revenue using exit pop-ups. By doing this, you won't clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor's experience.<br /><br /><strong>6. Affiliate marketing</strong><br /><br />If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. 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Click Here For More Info!<br /><a href="http://www.secretaffiliateweapon.com/" target="_blank">http://www.SecretAffiliateWeapon.com</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-33665427719995528612007-11-10T01:09:00.000+07:002008-12-09T23:29:11.131+07:00NEW AGE WEDDING PHOTO IN CHINA<div align="justify">By <a href="http://execblogger.com/">Ari Satriyo Wibowo</a></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">New Age wedding style are becoming so popular in China now.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">One hundred and fifty thousand couples got married in Shanghai two years ago. Many Chinese couples are willing to spend a lot .That is 50% more than 2005.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">A wedding craze sweeping China is causing a boom for the country's retailers. Couples are tripping over one another to get married this year and many are stretching themselves financially in order to do so. Preparing for a wedding can take a long time. This couple spent $17,500 on their wedding and honeymoon - more than their combined annual earnings. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Luckily, they both have savings. "According to Chinese tradition weddings are large scale, extravagant affairs," the bride says. "It's only once in a lifetime. "Although we spent many years of savings to make our wedding memorable and impressive, we feel it's worth it." The groom agrees. "If our guests feel that the wedding is unforgettable then we have achieved our goal," he says. </div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RzSk9rXYU2I/AAAAAAAAALw/xTvdwiZKs9Q/s1600-h/ATT143763[1].JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130907255001600866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RzSk9rXYU2I/AAAAAAAAALw/xTvdwiZKs9Q/s320/ATT143763%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">The couple treated their 220 guests to a five-course banquet followed by games with prizes, champagne and a slice of their four-tier wedding cake. The wedding was held at the four star Intercontinental Hotel in Shanghai, which has raised its rates by 10% in response to this year's high demand. Even so, all the weekend wedding dates in 2006 are already booked out. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">A combination of more couples choosing to get married in 2006, more 1980s baby-boomers reaching marrying age and the growing affluence in China's cities is causing an all time boom in the wedding industry. Wedding planning agencies are on the front line. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Wedding rings, a Western tradition, are becoming popular. There are more than 1,000 wedding planning firms in Shanghai but there's plenty of business to go around. According to Han Yong, the general manager of Shanghai Jingcai Wedding Consultancy, "This year we have received requests from 200 couples to plan their weddings compared with 80 requests by this time last year," he says. "I've had to employ three times as many staff to meet demand." </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Wedding planners are not the only ones benefiting from the current boom. Paris Bride photo salon is one of several hundred wedding photography studios in downtown Shanghai. Next year is not considered a good year for marriages In modern Chinese culture, it is common practice for a couple to spend an entire day prior to the wedding itself having their picture taken. At this salon, it is currently necessary to book your photo shoot half a year in advance, with some couples even booking before they have set a wedding date, according to deputy general manager, Qiu Yujuan. "What we are doing to accommodate the current wedding boom is offering a range of new themes including our most popular, Queen Katherine - where the couple have their photos taken in period costume against an ancient royal background." </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Others have themselves superimposed on false backgrounds to make it look as though they have visited faraway shores. Another trend, this time adopted from the West, is the buying of wedding rings. Both men and women get an engagement ring and the woman also gets a diamond ring to mark the marriage. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Any comments?</div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-84284419568690279112007-11-02T13:42:00.000+07:002008-12-09T23:29:12.468+07:00FROM THE EVENT OF "PESTA BLOGGER 2007"<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrJx12dXSI/AAAAAAAAALo/QW1_Yck8UNM/s1600-h/Suasana+di+Blitz+Megaplex.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128132983820999970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrJx12dXSI/AAAAAAAAALo/QW1_Yck8UNM/s320/Suasana+di+Blitz+Megaplex.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrJl12dXRI/AAAAAAAAALg/Q0RIKZhqB6E/s1600-h/suasana+pesta+blogger+3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128132777662569746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrJl12dXRI/AAAAAAAAALg/Q0RIKZhqB6E/s320/suasana+pesta+blogger+3.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify">By <a href="http://execblogger.com/">Ari Satriyo Wibowo</a></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">A meeting like this have happened previously at October28, 1908. New generation of a nation have come from various part of this archipelago islands to talk together, sit, looking face to face and making a pledge that “ We are Indonesian confess that we own one nation.”</div><br /><div align="justify">Almost eighty years later, a new generation nowadays, even also conduct a meeting. Gathering, sit, looking face to face and promising to each other to visiting their blogs and change over links. Yes this is generation of Blogger Indonesia which have performed a meeting under a title as Party of Blogger 2007 " New<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrH9V2dXPI/AAAAAAAAALQ/C2-X8nlYJag/s1600-h/Gambar+Menkominfo.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128130982366239986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrH9V2dXPI/AAAAAAAAALQ/C2-X8nlYJag/s320/Gambar+Menkominfo.JPG" border="0" /></a> Voice of Indonesia" in Blitz Megaplex, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta at Saturday, October, 27 2007. The event followed by around 482 participants from entire Indonesia.<br /></div><div align="justify">State Minister of Communications and Informatics, Mohammad Nuh have pleasured to open the event and declared that October 27 will be decided as National Day of Blogger. According to Nuh nowadays is not the epoch of banning the demarcation of writting and expression. What is needed in this time is brightening activities from Indonesian bloggers to enlightment the nation. Nowadays there are around 130.000 people in Indonesia participated as blogger. </div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Compared with the population of Indonesia which aroung 220 milllion that amount is tiny. So the minister hope that on the year of 2008 the amount of bloggers in Indonesia could reach one million people.</div><div align="justify"><br />Minister promise to give his full support to every activities of Indonesian blogger. Every year his ministery office will be given Blogger Award start from the year of 2008. Mohammad Nuh also asked Indonesian bloggers to create the theme song of " New Voice of Indonesia" as bloggers " national anthem".</div><div align="justify"><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrISl2dXQI/AAAAAAAAALY/js29H62D9K0/s1600-h/cropping+pesta+blogger+2007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128131347438460162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RyrISl2dXQI/AAAAAAAAALY/js29H62D9K0/s320/cropping+pesta+blogger+2007.jpg" border="0" /></a>The discussion guided by Wimar Witoelar from Perspektif.Com. Party of Blogger 2007 for the first time are followed by various category of blogs start from online marketing &amp; sales, current issues, technology issues, women issues, celebrity and personal blog. </div><div align="justify"><br />Communities of blogger from various town in Indonesia such as Anginmammiri from Makasar, Angkringan and Cah Andong from Yogya, Loenpia from Semarang, BBV from Bandung, Go Ranahminang from Padang, Tukang Lenong from Jakarta, Blogfam, Communty of Moslem Bloggers , Independence, Multiply Indonesia, and IDGMAIL. Organizer of this event are Bubu.Com and of Maverick. </div></div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-8959354136818594302007-10-26T11:31:00.000+07:002007-10-27T07:06:54.294+07:00Festival of Love Celebrated February 15th, not 14th<div align="justify"><br />Valentine Day originates from the ancient Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on 15 February in honour of the gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. During the festival, young men would draw the names of women from a box, and each couple would be paired until next year's celebra<a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/valentines_day.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/valentines_day.jpg" border="0" /></a>tion. Often they would fall in love and marry.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />At around 270AD Rome was facing battles and civil uprising. The men were not keen to join the army. Emperor Claudius II believed that the men did not want to leave their loved ones and summarily cancelled all marriages and engagements. Two priests, Valentine and Marius, disobeyed the decree and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. Valentine was caught on 14 February and dragged to jail. Later in the day he was clubbed to death and beheaded. It is said that, before his execution, Valentine himself had fallen in love with the jailer's daughter. He signed his final note to her, "From your Valentine."<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">Valentine's Day<br /></div><br /><div align="justify">In 391AD, Emperor Theodosius I declared Christianity as the official religion of the Rome. The fertility festival was celebrated until 496AD when Pope Gelasius replaced it with a similar celebration. For patron saint of the celebration, he chose the "lovers" saint, St Valentine. He also moved the date of the celebration from the 15 February to the date of St Valentine's death, 14 February. Through the centuries, Valentines Day became to be remembered more as the festival of love instead of a religious day. In 1969 it was dropped from the Roman Catholic calendar as a designated feast day.</div><br /><div align="justify">Cupid</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Cupid has always played a role in the celebrations of love. Those whose hearts are pierced by his arrows fall deeply in love. In Greek mythology he was known as Eros, the young son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. To the Romans, he was Cupid, son of Venus. But where there's love, there often is jealousy. Venus was jealous of the beauty of Psyche, a mere mortal, and ordered Cupid to punish her (for being so beautiful). Instead, Cupid fell deeply in love and took her as his wife.</div><br /><div align="justify"><br />As a mortal Psyche was forbidden to look at him. Eventually, her sisters convinced her to look at the handsome Cupid. As punishment, Venus demanded that she perform three difficult tasks, the last of which caused Psyche's death. Cupid found her lifeless on the ground and removed the eternal sleep from her body. The gods, moved by their love, then granted Psyche immortality.<br />The symbol of Cupid became part of Valentines Day only recently. Cupid is still around shooting his arrows. Psyche represents the struggles of the human soul.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Source : Did You Know</div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-8601624481067855342007-10-26T11:15:00.000+07:002007-10-27T07:11:59.865+07:00About 90 Nuclear Bombs Lost at Sea<div align="justify">The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo, it is said. The NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 (the Kosovo war) killed more animals than people. "Smart" weapons, such the Tomahawk missile is supposed to hit a postage stamp at 300km or more (200 miles or more). But only two out of thirteen actually hit the target. One skimmed over the house of a small farmer a few kilometres (miles) off target, straight up a track, through bushes, and exploded in the farmer's field, killing seven sheep, one cow and a goat. The farmer kept the missile nosecone as a souvenir.<br /><br />To err is human. To really mess things up you need a computer </div><br /><div align="justify"><br />On 5 October 1960 an early-warning system warned the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) of a massive Soviet nuclear missile strike approaching the United States. What happened is that a fault in a computer system had removed two zeros from the radar's ranging components, detecting the missile attack at 4 000km (2,500 miles) away. The radar was actually detecting a reflection from the moon, located 400 000km (250,000 miles) away.<br /><a href="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/submarine/scorpion-wreck1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/submarine/scorpion-wreck1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Nuclear bomb - man's worst invention </div><br /><div align="justify"><br />On 3 June 1980 a massive Soviet missile attack was again registered by computers. 100 nuclear-armed B-52s were immediately put on alert. A computer fault was detected in time, but three days later the same error occurred and again the bombers were put on alert. The problem was later traced to the failure of an integrated circuit in a computer, which was producing random digits representing the number of missiles detected.<br /><br />On 10 January 1984, Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, recorded a message that one of its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles was about to launch from its silo due to a computer malfunction. To prevent the possible launch, an armoured car was parked on top of the silo.<br /><br />The history of nuclear weapon accidents is as old as their introduction </div><br /><div align="justify"><br />The US Department of Defence (DoD) first published a list of nuclear weapon accidents in 1968 which detailed 13 serious nuclear weapon accidents between 1950-1968. An updated list released in 1980 catalogued 32 accidents. At the same time, documents released by the Navy under the Freedom of Information Act cited 381 nuclear weapon incidents between 1965 and 1977.<br /><br />A number of nuclear cases involve ships or submarines colliding at sea or, in some cases, submarine nuclear power units becoming unstable and the subs having to be abandoned. According to Greenpeace there have been more than 120 submarine accidents since 1956. The most recent incident, in August 2000, was the loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea. The Kursk is the seventh nuclear submarine lost, five of them Russian, two American. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Source : Did You Know</div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-51909246172162074312007-09-21T12:41:00.000+07:002008-12-09T23:29:12.686+07:00Biantoro Wanandi: Choose nanotechnology as company's strategy<div align="justify">Posted by The Jakarta Post daily at Wednesday, September 12, 2007<br /><br />By Ari Satriyo Wibowo, Contributor, Jakarta<br /><br />Occupying various positions in the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, starting in 1978 as a scientist, then chief of the drug policies and management unit and later program manager of the Drug Action Program, brought little satisfaction to Biantoro Wanandi. The limited operational budget facing WHO at that time and the routine job of his six years at WHO left Biantoro feeling less than challenged, and this built up into a desire and determination to return home in 1983 and become an entrepreneur. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RvQOxc_n0YI/AAAAAAAAALI/8JptEDBA8EI/s1600-h/Boentario+Wanandi.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112727719731777922" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RvQOxc_n0YI/AAAAAAAAALI/8JptEDBA8EI/s200/Boentario+Wanandi.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />That was the beginning of the Anugerah Corporation, a holding company that now has more than 20 subsidiary companies. Among these companies are three major enterprises, namely PT Combiphar, a manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceuticals, PT Anugerah Pharmindo Lestari (APL), a pharmaceuticals distribution company and PT Tigaka Distrindo Perkasa (TDP), an importer and distributor of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and other raw materials.<br /><br />Biantoro's experience and his Swiss and WHO connections enabled him to build a level of trust with several major players in the international pharmaceutical industry that led to the development of business partnerships with globally renowned companies such as Novartis, Zuellig Pharma, Glaxo Smith Kline and Sanofi-Aventis.<br />After coming back to Indonesia in 1983, he helped his brothers develop the family business, mainly in the field of automotive, batteries, property, etc. The pharmaceutical industry was, at that time, already saturated and the government had issued a negative investment list that included the pharmaceutical sector. Prior to his time with WHO, Biantoro had developed pharmaceutical business knowledge and skills with Swiss giant Ciba-Geigy and had built a network in the industry spanning 25 years, all of which formed a platform on which he slowly started to develop business opportunities in Indonesia.<br /><br />He setup PT Anugerah Pharmindo Lestari (APL) in 1985 from scratch and bought PT Combiphar in 1986. He also assisted in the establishment of PT Sandoz Biochemie Farma Indonesia in 1985 and in 1987 he teamed up with Glaxo Ltd to establish PT Glaxo Indonesia.<br /><br />When asked for his view on the pharmaceutical industry in Indonesia, he commented that the market was very small considering the size of the population and that there were big differences with neighboring countries in income per capita, health care coverage and drug expenditure. The total health expenditure of Indonesia is less than 2 percent of GDP, while in the U.S. it is about 14 percent and in Europe 7 to 11 percent. WHO recommends that it be at least 5 percent of GDP. To cultivate the market, he suggests the government supports the establishment of a suitable health financing system in the country. At present, approximately 85 percent of the population pay their health expenses from their own pockets. The ASKESIN (a type of health insurance for the poor paid by the government) has not developed as anticipated. He suggests that the government encourage more private insurance companies to participate in covering the more affluent segment of the population for financing their health care service requirements. In obtaining affordable premiums from insurance providers, the number of members plays the biggest role. Therefore, a legal framework to oblige all citizens to have health insurance is key. In this way the health care services sector could grow faster and improve in quality, thus improving the health index of the population. Pharmaceutical companies would, of course, also benefit from this development.<br /><br />The other concern Biantoro shared was the weakness/unreadiness of the Indonesian pharmaceutical industry in meeting quality requirements of their products. A prerequisite to enter/penetrate the ASEAN market and obtain product acceptance by ASEAN's FDA is compliance to Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention (PIC) standards of quality e.g. BA-BE, cGMP, GLP. by 2008. He said that if we were not prepared our products would not be able to enter or be registered in the ASEAN countries.<br />More than 80 percent of the ASEAN pharmaceutical market, except in Singapore, is made up of generics, therefore our industry could compete with other ASEAN industries. Our main challenge would be to compete with other strong countries like India and China, if they were allowed to enter the ASEAN market. To improve our capabilities, we need a break-through strategy and industries, the government and the academia need to work hand in hand.<br /><br />As mentioned, products of pharmaceutical producers in Indonesia and other ASEAN countries are mainly generic or relatively uniform. Facing this situation, a management expert from Harvard Business School, Michael E. Porter, suggested three generic strategies, namely overall cost leadership, differentiation and focus to maintain a company's competitive advantage.<br /><br />Biantoro Wanandi has not selected the product leadership strategy since his company is not a market leader. Also, it is prohibitively expensive to conduct research and development. Instead, Combiphar has introduced a cost leadership strategy. To improve efficiency, Biantoro instructed Combiphar to apply enterprise resources planning (ERP) that integrates various business processes and existing information systems (for example production, logistics, distribution, accounting, finance and human resources).<br /><br />Combiphar has implemented SAP and was the first pharmaceutical company in Indonesia to do so.<br /><br />Many efficiencies can be extracted from ERP. In the early stages inventories were reduced from three to two months' stock. Financial statement reports are now finished 10 days earlier than previously and production planning, which was previously conducted once a month, is now done weekly. ERP was an important choice especially as the location of the Combiphar factory is in Padalarang, near Bandung, while its head office is in Jakarta. ERP (together with SAP) has accelerated the company's data collection, and decisions can therefore be made faster.<br />Combiphar has risen from being the 23th biggest pharmaceutical company in Indonesia to being the 18th. Biantoro aims to make it among the top 10 by 2012.<br /><br />Following the success with the overall cost leadership strategy, Combiphar is now trying to strengthen its competitive edge by applying a strategy of differentiation. "Our selected differentiation strategy is the application of state-of-the-art nanotechnology in pharmaceutical products -- initially in the OTC area as a new drug delivery system."<br /><br />Combiphar is conducting technological transfer through a license issued by Advance Pharmaceutical Nanotech in Delaware, the U.S. "Nanotechnology is already being widely applied in various industries such as cosmetics, food and drink, paint, electronics, but only a few pharmaceutical companies have successfully come up with nanotechnology applications in pharmaceuticals or medicines," Biantoro told journalists when hosting a nanotechnology symposium at JW Marriott Hotel Jakarta last month.<br /><br />Last year, Combiphar launched three new products that are based on nanotechnology: Jointfit, a glucosamine, chondroitin and nano calcium plus nano vitamin D3 (to improve absorption of calcium); Gestabil, containing nano particles of antacid that act faster on stomach acid; Pronemia, a chewable double-layered tablet for patients with anemia and for pregnant women. Anemia is the most common blood disorder in Indonesia, with nearly 60 percent of the population being anemic. Iron is required for the formation of hemoglobin; when there is a shortage of iron in the body it causes iron-deficiency anemia. Pronemia contains nano particles of iron, which helps the formation of red blood cells, and is enriched with vitamin C, vitamin B12 and folic acid. The use of nano iron eliminates the taste of iron, constipation and other stomach problems. "The blueberry taste and the chewable double-layered tablet is well accepted by patients, but the process of disseminating information on it will be time consuming because doctors and consumers must be educated first about the benefits of nanotechnology," said Biantoro.<br /><br />Prof. Hans P. Merkle, professor of pharmaceutics, head of the Drug Formulation and Delivery Group from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, who was a classmate of Biantoro's at the institute, was pleased to add his comments, "Well, I've known him for almost 40 years. I do not see him frequently but sometimes I'm amazed with his energy and his enthusiasm and also his capacity to be a successful entrepreneur. I also appreciate his friendship and humor. I like him very much."<br /><br />Meanwhile, Dr. Chien-Chin Wu, a business partner from Advanced Pharmaceutical Nanotech Inc. (APN), the U.S. said, "I have been working with him for about four years now. I always enjoy talking and working with him because I recognize he has tremendous experience in the industry."<br /><br /><br />Background:<br /><br />Name: Dr. Willem Biantoro Wanandi<br />Place/date of birth: Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Jan. 30, 1939<br />Marital status: Married with three children<br />Education: Doctorate in natural sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (1966-1968)<br />Work experience:<br />Currently: Chairman Anugerah Corporation<br />Currently: President Director PT Combiphar<br />Currently: Chairman PT Anugerah Pharmindo Lestari (APL)<br />Currently: Chairman of PT Tigaka Distrindo Perkasa<br />1983-1987: National project coordinator UNDP/WHO Jakarta<br />1983-1987: Technical advisor to minister of health for pharmaceutical affairs<br />1978-1983: Scientist, thereafter head of the drug policies and management unit and later program manager of Drug Action Program for WHO, Geneva, Switzerland<br />1969-1972: Scientist, Ciba-Geigy Ltd, Basle, Switzerland<br />(1972-1977): Production manager, member of management committee of PT Ciba Geigy Pharma Indonesia, Jakarta.</div>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-7443689801929007612007-08-30T05:05:00.000+07:002007-08-30T05:09:42.234+07:00Atlantis And Lemuria - Lost Continents, Or A Dreamland Of Eden?<p style="text-align: justify;">You ask - Atlantis? What is hidden behind this mysterious word? Did this lost, mythical world really exist? Why has it been covered with so much words, veils of fantasy, half-truths, assumptions, hypotheses, or perhaps truths? Or is it just a pure fabrication that inspires poets, occultists, and a little less conventional scientists? It's hard to tell...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Atlantis received a lot of attention and many words were written about it; delusions and disinformation too. However, not only laymen but also few and quite earnest scientists claim that this fabulous world did really exist here some long time ago.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Atlantis and its unearthly destruction gave birth to several theories; however, before we start speaking about them, let us look at the historically first recorded note about the existence of this unknown world.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.circlesofwisdom.com/eventcalendar/items/LemuriaAndAtlantis_event1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.circlesofwisdom.com/eventcalendar/items/LemuriaAndAtlantis_event1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The first record about Atlantis was written by Plato - a famous and trustworthy Greek philosopher - who in his works, Critian (and Timeus, too) described in words of Critias a story about Solon, a famous thinker and poet from 6th century BC, who had heard in Egypt from a certain priest that some long time ago there had existed a land called Atlantis, which had been destroyed. A fragment of Plato's words: On this island of Atlantis had arisen a powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings, who ruled the whole island, and many other islands as well and parts of the continent; in addition it controlled, within the strait, Libya up to the borders of Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Italy)...</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Translation by Sir Desmond Lee, first published 1965, Penguin Classics.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to other narrations, Gods divided the world for themselves. Poseidon was one of them and he got the Atlantis. Some people had already lived on the island and one of them was Evenor who had Leucippe as his spouse; they had one daughter - Cleito. Cleito grew up, she was more and more beautiful, and Poseidon fell in love with her. When Cleito's parents died, the almighty God of the Sea took care of her and she was about to give birth to five pairs of twins - men, twin brothers, who received the Atlantis to domineer over it. The oldest one was Atlas. And these ruled and governed in a big empire...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Egyptians said to Solon that Atlantis had been destroyed some 9000 years ago. Thus, if we add 600 years (before Christ) when Solon lived, and 2000 years that passed from the Christ's birth until today, we will get 11,600 years.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are other authors who wrote about Atlantis, but the first and most famous source is that one of Plato. The other source is a Greek philosopher Diodorusa Siculus, who lived some 90-20 years before Christ, and who wrote (Bibliotheca Historica) that some thousands years in the past Phoenicians had visited a very big island. Atlanteans allegedly "civilized most of the people". So you can see, there are more historical descriptions of Atlantis among which we can also find the one from Aristotle, who wrote, too, about a big island in the Atlantic Ocean. Furthermore, the destruction of Atlantis was mentioned by historians such as Marcellinus, Timagenus, Theopompos...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We also deal with written records of the Aztecs, Mayas, and not only with these. There are written records such as Chilam Balam, Dresden Codex, Popol Vuh, Codex Cortesianus - they all indicate that the existence of such an advanced civilization was possible. If we look into the line drawing of the less distant history, Atlantis had always attracted poets, writers, but also occultists or travelers/adventurers. One such author was Francis Bacon, who already in 1626 wrote a very interesting work - New Atlantis, which - at its time - exceeded even Verne. Bacon describes here how a shipwreck crew found some extremely advanced people on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. The inhabitants of this island could "record sounds", they were able to "demonstrate" and "copy" it; they used "engines" for all types of movements; they also had messengers whom they sent to visit the worldly nations and collect information.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Occultism and New Age also drew information from the famous Russian clairvoyant - Blavatska, who maintained that people from Atlantis were just a different race on Earth and they had amazing psychical abilities. However, being corrupted, they changed themselves to bad magicians and started war that resulted in a complete destruction.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Theories about Atlantis</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Theories about Atlantis basically stand on two pillars:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is a fable.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is a "bubble" fabricated from the fall of the Minon civilization and the destruction of the Thera Island, today known as Santorini, 1640 years before Christ by volcanic explosion in the area of smaller volcanic islands in the Egey Sea some 75 kilometers southeast from the main Greek land.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If we forget the first two points and suppose that Atlantis did really exist, then we can look at other theories:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">II.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Atlantis existed in the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the web of sciences, pseudoscience and charlatanism, other teachings appear such as a theory about the existence of an archipelago between Cyprus and Syria, but the above theories are the mainstream ones. Let us therefore look at some information about the possible existence of Atlantis in divergencies of opinions and in a theoretical level without requirement to prove or disprove something.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If we count on the theory about the Mediterranean Sea and the Minon civilization, we will get a simple conclusion. However, if we are not ready to stop at this point, we can also mention theories about an island or even a land in the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Theories about Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean</p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the first modern-time Atlantis researchers, who delved into the study of old documents and sources about Atlantis on a long-term basis, was Ignatius Donnelly - an American congressman from Minnesota, who in the year 1882 wrote a book Atlantis the Antediluvian World, and in 1883 Ragnarok the Age of Fire and Gravel. Donnelly brought the legend about Atlantis to awareness of Americans with great success. He cites Plato in his books; he speaks about myths and theories of the Biblical flood; he does not bypass native American Indians either and tries to document language similarities of Indian languages with some European languages.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The number of authors enlarged including the ones from professional areas. For example, James Churchward wrote several books where he documents old scripts; William Niven, a geologist, tries to prove that he found similar stone tablets in Mexico. These and other writers support the theory that Atlantis existed in the Atlantic Ocean as an advanced civilization that colonized the continent of North and South America, but also Europe, Africa and Asia.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The anthropologist George Hunt Williamson made his own research of Atlantis and Lemuria. The author writes how the ancestors of the Incas led him to an old manuscript in the Andes; it records the destruction of Atlantis and Mu. They had allegedly an advanced technology.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Proofs or arguments</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In case of "proofs", we should be careful, as the Atlantis topic is a good way for making money. But in addition to fake proofs, there are some trustworthy arguments too. Let's think.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Piri Reis map come from about the year 1513.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Columbus, the man who discovered America as the first person mentioned in historical documents, studied older maps including the map of Admiral Piri Reis, which dates back to 1513. Albeit the continent of America was discovered in 1492, these maps picture the world in a shape that is against the knowledge of the present historical science. The Piri Reis map pictures also Antarctis some 300 years before it was discovered - the contours are quite accurate.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Not only this does make us "dumb". Professor Hapgood contacted the US Air Force to confirm the theory about the fact that the land areas of the Piri Reis map picturing Antarctis are not below ice. He received a positive answer.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would like to believe... But most opinions pertaining to this subject are a product of manipulation that helps their authors maintain a "good job" or institute themselves in some hierarchy of the world. The Italian scientist Diego Cuoghi documents some details - already at the time of the Turkish Admiral, South America was being discovered by more adventurers; one of them was Amerigo Vespucci (in 1499); however, there are also maps dated before 1513 and even more accurate than the Piri Reis map if we focus on Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico - these areas are pictured quite inaccurately on the above-mentioned map. Writers like Dänikin or Professor Hapgood simply ignore this.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We can also mention a map by Juan de la Cosa (1500) or Cantino (1502). If we put Antarctis or "undiscovered" islands into the profile, this cannot be seen as proof, because, for example, Waldseemüller's map from 1507 pictures China prolonged from the back of India - China actually going to Sri Lanka... Thus, we could say that the missing part of Brazil on the Piri map simply did not exist!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And what about accurate contours of Antarctis? I think that Hapgood, von Dänikan and other writers arrogantly underestimate thinking and intelligence of ancient people and they forgot that Egyptians were very good sailors too.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This implies that if the Alexandrian library was destroyed as the richest source of information we had ever had - any good Egyptian pharaoh - a visionary could easily support a big expedition and it is possible that some ancient sailors knew that Antarctis existed. Having no records about this does not necessarily mean that ancient people did not explore America or Antarctis in the ancient past; neither does it mean that they had to become "extraterrestrials", as imagination of present writers often indicates, as they appear to think that ancient people were not even able to think.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Archeological findings</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are many interesting findings, but to expose details of every one of them is not necessary for the moment. To be brief, let's include only some of them to give a picture how adherents of the idea of a lost world think.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">North America</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In May 1969, somewhere around the Bimini islands, archeologists Mansen Valentain and Dimitri Rebikov found some remnants of a building some 30 meters deep in the sea. These were big pieces of stones - they perfectly fit into one another; the weight of one was about 25 tones. Scientists from the Miami University concluded that the remnants date back to some 7,000 or 10,000 years before Christ, which means that they are older than the pyramids of the Mayas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The expedition of Dr. Manson Valentine found near the Bimini Islands other ruins at the sea bottom, and in the year 1982 these ruins were photographed. They are quite similar to one of the oldest places that have ever been found - Tiahuanaco Lake in Bolivia.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">South America</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many explorers and adventurers tried to find the El Dorado - an imaginary place of immense richness. Some archeologists also claim that South America is the oldest cradle of humankind. Long time ago the Tiahuanaco Empire existed here and it is believed that it existed some 12,000 years before Christ. The remnants of a big city Tiahuanaco can be found even today on the banks of Titicaca Lake. Many expeditions explored this area. Scientists wonder how could the then inhabitants move heavy stones (about 130 tones) and put them side by side. The Tiahuanaco civilization gave birth to predecessors of Indians in South America.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Other sources say that Phoenicians visited South America; one such a source was Austrian Professor Ludwig Schwennhagen, who claims that he found their inscriptions in the Amazon jungle. The French researcher Apollinaire Frot traveled all over the Brazilian areas such as Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Bahia and said that he had found so many such inscriptions that he could write books about them. A British explorer, Percy Fawcett, confirmed this independently.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amazonia</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amazonia is poorly explored in terms of present knowledge; its size is only a little smaller that the present USA. A very famous is the story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a member of the Royal Geographical Society in London.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the beginning of the 20th century, this in archeology interested adventurer decided to explore "lost worlds" in the South-American forests. On the basis of agreements with the Bolivian and Brazilian governments, he became a member of several expeditions, and already in the year 1911 he lectured in London about "lost cities" the existence of which he predicted somewhere on the border between Bolivia and Brazil. Percy Fawcett was a real enthusiast of the mythological Atlantis and he believed that South America, i.e. Brazil, was colonized by this civilization in our ancient history.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">His disappearance gave birth to several hypotheses, one of them was that Indians might capture him and that he still lives. BBC made several TV documents and they also contacted the Fawcett's family to find out more, but the family refused to disclose some sensitive materials about Fawcett with justification that people are not yet prepared to hear this...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Document 512</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fawcett, as we already know, was possessed by the idea to search ancient civilizations and he also visited many archives. He found a document in Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasileriro in Rio de Janeiro about the 1753 Portuguese expedition, where it is written: "...big, hidden and very ancient city was found without inhabitants...".</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, stories about his disappearance are exaggerated - it is not a problem to disappear in such a jungle even today without leaving any trace. Some believe that he lives in these lost cities and has eternal life...</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lemuria</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The idea of Lemuria or Mu first appeared in works of Augustus Le Plongeon, the traveler and writer who conducted his own investigations.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Concepts about Lemuria are further built on the fact that identical geological structures of Permian are found in South India, South Africa, and Australia. Some geologists therefore suggested a theory of possible existence of ancient continent and proposed the name Lemuria, which somehow survived.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This lost continent was later popularized by James Churchward (1852-1936) in a series of books, beginning with The Children of Mu (1931), The Lost Continent Mu (1933), and The Sacred Symbols of Mu (1935). The books still have devotees...</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Conclusion</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Certainly, every reasonable man will refuse Dänikin's ideas - we may not necessarily see an "astronaut" in every ancient drawing. But neither do we have to go in a direction to hatefully reject any idea that slithered off our monocultural line. First of all, it is open thinking that is important to correctly grasp or refuse anything that appears as truth or lie.</p><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div id="sig" class="sig"><p>Source: <a id="link_62" target="_new" href="http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/esoteric/">http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/esoteric/</a></p><div><p>Article Source: <a id="link_63" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Juraj_Sipos">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Juraj_Sipos</a></p></div></div></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>ARI SATRIYO WIBOWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340771634856723895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473773813128495916.post-84284384154601782342007-08-02T18:11:00.000+07:002008-12-09T23:29:12.865+07:00From Intimate Distance Indonesian Women Artist 2007<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xlC8FYFE5i8/RrG8CxVPw3I/AAAAAAAAAK8/YIZApIlfJ-Y/s1600-h/DSC03613.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094059409320952690" style="FLOAT: left; 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